Hard drives fail. Plugins break. Hackers attack. Customers accidentally delete the entire products page. The single best protection against any of these is a recent, working backup.
What can go wrong without backups
- Hardware failure - rare but real. A server disk dies and the data is gone if not replicated.
- Bad plugin/theme update - takes the site offline. Without backup you have to debug live.
- Compromised site - the only clean way to recover is to restore from a known-clean backup.
- Human error - someone deletes the wrong file, drops the wrong database table, overwrites the wrong page.
- Ransomware - your local files (or even your CMS database) get encrypted and a ransom is demanded. Restoring from off-site backup makes ransomware a non-event.
What Trinico Cloud includes for free
Every cPanel hosting plan includes:
- Daily backups taken at off-peak hours.
- 30 days of restore points.
- Self-service restore via cPanel - restore your whole site, a single file or a single database with a few clicks.
- Backups stored on a separate server in the same data centre, plus a weekly off-site copy.
For higher-risk sites - add CodeGuard
If your site changes daily (e-commerce, blogs, customer portals), upgrade to CodeGuard or another website backup service. CodeGuard takes its own daily snapshot, stores it off-site by default, and lets you compare any two snapshots to see exactly what changed - useful for spotting compromises early.
See CodeGuard backup plans FTP storage for off-site copies
Need a hand?
The Trinico Cloud team is in South Africa and replies during local business hours. Reach us via WhatsApp, e-mail or a support ticket - whichever suits you best.
